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Which word in this excerpt from Carl Sandburg's "Chicago" has a connotation of power or strength?

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Carl Sandburg's tribute to the Windy City is both a grandly panoramic and a microscopically detailed examination of urban life.

Which word in this excerpt from Carl Sandburg's "Chicago" has a connotation of power or strength? Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be

alive and coarse and strong and cunning.

Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall

bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities;

Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted

against the wilderness,

Bareheaded,

Shoveling,

Wrecking,

Planning,

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